There was a period of time where it seemed that every movie or school assembly or concert I went to had some jerk with a laser pointer being a jerk. Fortunately it has been awhile since the last time I have seen that happen. Now I mostly see them used to torture cats and dogs.

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there were jerks doing that when laser pointers were new. now they’re not new anymore, so they’re not novel, so it’s no longer fun to be a jerk with them. there should be no more jerks until some new novel device that has the ability to annoy people comes out and becomes popular.

Ya know….I’ve gone to a theater with a freind before to watch a movei, and started ranting to him about what jerkheads people could be because some one was doing that….Turned out it was my freind and I had to pay for my own ticket after that. XD

I had a teacher once who used a laser pointer to point at things on his slides and stuff. Then one day half the class brought in laser pointers to annoy him. He was actually pretty good natured about it. This guy also ate a live cicada for us in class the year we had the 17 year cicadas buzzing about, so I question his sanity.

@ghostmaiden – She’d have to be one seriously dedicated girl, to put up with all the stuff that goes wrong around Biff.

speaking of torturing cats and dogs (unintentionlly!) i once made my dog flatten his face against one of those glass doors, by reflecting a ray of light to the other side of the door by using a mirror. it was so funny, but also i felt guilty

There was once a guy in a presentation who kept pressing the wrong button on his laser pointer, but didn’t realise it even though he could clearly see that there was NO red dot on his slides. He kept on with it, though. Acting. Heh.

My sister has a laser pointer that seems to be made for cats. one of the pointer images is of a mouse. One time the cats realized that the light was coming from the thing in my hand and tried to get it from me. They forgot it by next time.

Also, the aquarium in Boston has a laser-pointer type thing that’s white and shaped like a fish. It’s there so you can make the penguins chase it. I always thought that was awesome, but kinda cruel.

My cat knows where the laser comes from, but he doesn’t know exactly what the pointer is, so if I can just get a pen or marker that’s about the right color and size he immediately starts jerking his head around looking for the dot.

I just realized how lucky they were when I was on a school trip to London. I was 18, had just got my first laser pointer, was enchanted with the wild feeling of freedom and irresponsibility that accompanies travels abroad, and I was enormously unimpressed by the Rocky Horror Show we had to endure, but I still kept the laser pointer turned off.